All conjecture at this point, but the govt “people handling” playbook is offer a catastrophe, then water it down to a calamity, which we take thinking we were lucky…followed by misdirection..oh, look, a squirrel…
That’s certainly the approach taken by all governments before a budget. Leak something horrendous that’s never going to happen, so that when some bad news is announced we are just grateful that it wasn’t worse. They think we are all stupid not to see through it.
Yes that’s how it works, an example, our council wants to change bin collection from every two weeks to four weekly collection so of course everyone is up in arms about it, but in a month or so I’m sure they will come back and say they got a compromise and the bins will be collected every three weeks.
Everyone will be celebrating that they stopped the four weekly and myself knowing that the three week collection is what they had in mind in the first place.